Visiting Professors and Scholars since 1990 - Cumulative Listing

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Adamski, Franciszek, Professor and Director, Institute of Pedagogy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D., Dr. hab.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Sociology
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1990 - Spring 1991
MAJOR INTERESTS: Social Education

Arcisz, Sabina, Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

M.A. Jagiellonian University
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Information and Library Science
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1993
MAJOR INTERESTS: Philosophy of information science, business information

Bednarczyk, Boguslawa, Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

M.A. Jagiellonian University, 1977
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Law
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Human rights issues, minorities and ethnic conflicts. Contemporary history of European left political movements, the New Left, West European radical and socialist movements.

Budzilo-Jarzebska, Alicja, Assistant Professor, Institute of Musicology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1979
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Music
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: History and theory of twentieth century music and the contributions of American composers and theorists. Analysis of compositions and the aesthetical and theoretical works of leading European composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg.

Bobik, Renata - Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Physiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1993
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Hematopoiesis, megakarocytopoiesis and thrombopoiesis in physiological and pathological conditions, the relationship between megakaryocyte changes and platelet production (after irradiation, treatment with radioprotective thiol compounds, particularly WR-2721), molecular mechanisms of action of WR-2721 on megakaryocytopoiesis.

Chelmicki, Wojciech, Associate Professor, Institute of Geography, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1982
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Geography
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1993 - Spring 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: Physical geography with focus on water circulation, shallow ground water regime, ground water runoff estimation, anthropogenic changes to ground water, water and matter circulation on slopes

Freindorf, Marek, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1988
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Chemistry
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: Molecular quantum mechanics and electron correlation processes in atoms and molecules; ab intio molecular orbital calculations for small molecular systems including hydrogen bonds; potential energy surfaces and methods of computational calculations.

Frysztacki, Krzysztof, Professor and Director, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1987Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1978
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Social Work
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1990 - Spring 1991
MAJOR INTERESTS: Urban Sociology and Urban Anthropology; Urban Ethnic Communities; Process of Urbanization and Industrialization, Local Communities and Community Development; Social Problems and Social Work.

Goban-Klas, Tomasz, Visitiong Professor of Sociology @

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1971Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1978
IN RESIDENCE AT UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: Spring 1994
1994 HOME INSTITUTION AND POSITION: Professor and Head, Culture and Communications Section, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University.
ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISMENTS OF RESIDENCE: Book: The Orchestration of the Media. The Politics of Mass Communications in Communist Poland and the Aftermath. Westview: Boulder 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: The sociology of communications in Poland.
CURRENT POSITION AND ADDRESS: Professor and Head, Communication and Mass Media Section, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University -- Kosciuszki 19, 30-105 KrakowPhone: 48 12 267-35-40 / Fax: 48 12 429-17-14 / E-mail: usgoban@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Hussakowska-Szyszko. Maria - Associate Professor, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1981
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor of Art History
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1996
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern and contemporary art in its different aspects, including art theory with special focus on American art and minimal art as the core of post-modernist movement.

Jurczynski, Tomasz R.- Senior Lecturer Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

M.A. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 1974
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Polish
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1994 - Spring 1996
MAJOR INTERESTS: American History and culture; the contribution of Poles and Americans of Polish descent to the United States development
RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: Author of 1995 book "Dictionary of the United States"

Klich, Jacek, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

M.A.. Jagiellonian University
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Management
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1992
MAJOR INTERESTS: The role of small business in the U.S. economy.

Kocojowa, Maria, Professor, Department of Library Science and Information, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1973Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1990
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Information and Library Science
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1993
MAJOR INTERESTS: Education in Librarianship; Nineteenth and twentieth century books; Marketing of academic/scholarly books.

Lisowska-Magdziarz, Malgorzata, Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

M.A. Jagiellonian University, 1987
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Communications
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: The use - in videoclips and commercial ads on Polish television - of the language of rebellion and conflict with the, so called, "System."

Mania, Andrzej, Professor and Director, Political Sciences Institute, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1992Dr. hab.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Law
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1992
MAJOR INTERESTS:

Mirski, Andrzej, Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1992
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Psychology
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: The human social and moral development with reference to behavioristic and psychoanalytic concepts; broad syntheses of existing theories; periodisation of human life.

Mydel, Rajmund, Professor, Institute of Geography, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1975Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1980
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Geography
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: Spatial differentiation of demographical and socio-economic space: population distribution and density, spatial differentiation by age categories and sex, by social strata, by principal socio-economic groups.

Niec, Halina, Chair of International Public Law, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Law
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Human rights

Nizegorodcew, Anna, Director of the English Language College, Associate Professor, Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1979Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1992
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Learning and Instruction
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Interactional discourse and second language communicative competence; function of idiomatic phrases in transmitting information in the native and second languages.

Olejnik, Marian - Lecturer, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1990
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Psychology
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS:Methods of development in adulthood. Sequential strategies in life-span development psychology. Biographical evaluation as a domain of cognitive development in adulthood. The problem of postformal stages in the development of operational intelligence. The formation of expertise.

Oleksy, Wieslaw - Director of Postgraduate Program, North American Studies Center, University of Lodz, Poland

Ph.D.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor of Polish
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1996 - Spring 1997
MAJOR INTERESTS: North American Studies; American linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics.

Orzechowski, Emil - , Dean and Associate Professor, School of Cultural Management and Communication, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1974Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1989
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor of Polish
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1992 - Spring 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: History of the Polonian theater in the United States.

Palecki, Krzysztof, Professor and Director of Institute of Political Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Dr. hab.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Law
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1990 - Spring 1991
MAJOR INTERESTS:

Pienkowski, Piotr Senior Lecturer, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

M.A. Jagiellonian University 1982
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Director of Polish Academic Information Center
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1997 - Fall 1997
MAJOR INTERESTS: Translation and Translation Studies Hypertext & Hypermedia in the Humanities. Modern American Poetry

Pindlowa, Wanda - Head of the Institute of Librarianship and Information Science @

Ph.D.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Information and Library Science
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: Theoretical and methodological problems in information science; Training users in information technology, Bibliometrics and informetrics, the organization and management of information systems

Sasinska-Klas, Teresa, Visiting Professor of Communication @

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1977Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1993
IN RESIDENCE AT UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: Spring 1992
1992 HOME INSTITUTION AND POSITION: Assistant Professor and Head, Journalism Section, Institute of Political Science, Jagiellonian University
ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENT OF RESIDENCE: Book: Beyond Solidarnosc - Essays on Poland's Past and Present. eds. Gunnar Boehnert and Teresa Sasinska-Klas, Guelph University Press, Guelph 1992.
MAJOR INTERESTS: Media and politics in East Central Europe in the time of the systemic transition. Transformation of the political system and development of social and political institutions in the former communist countries. Political socialization in the different political cultures. Public opinion, political participation, political consciousness. The position of women during the systemic transition in Eastern Europe. Empirical research on political consciousness and confidence in political and public institutions in Poland.
CURRENT POSITION AND ADDRESS: Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Journalism and Communication, Jagiellonian University -- Rynek Glowny 29, 31-010 Krakow
Phone: 48 12 422 8438 / Fax: 48 12 429 1714 / E-mail: UHSASINS@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Smoczynska, Magdalena, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1978Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1988
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Linguistics
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1994
MAJOR INTERESTS: Psycholinguistics; Acquisition of Polish verbal morphology by Polish children; the role of Polish verb stem alteration patterns.

Srzednicki, Roman, Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1981
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Mathematics
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1994 - Spring 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Application of algebraic topology to the theory of differential equations and dynamical systems. Geometric methods for the periodic problem.

Stopa, Grzegorz - Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1992
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Chemistry
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1996
MAJOR INTERESTS: Mechanism of ligand-field and charge- transfer photochemical and secondary thermal reactions metal coordination compounds; photocatalytic activation of small molecules by transition metal complexes in homogeneous systems; photochemistry of solar energy conversion and storage with the use of transition metal complexes.

Szczech, Wladyslaw - Lecturer, Department of Library Science and Information, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

M.A. Jagiellonian University, 1966
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Information and Library Science
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1996
MAJOR INTERESTS: Information-retrieval systems, computer use in libraries and library networks, mathematical logic as applied to library and information problems, data bases; The use of microcomputers in library and inf ormation works. The library networks. The international information systems. The information-retrieval languages.

Andrzej, Szopa, Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Ph.D. Dr. Hab.
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Management
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1993
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish Economy.

Szumanski, Andrzej, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

M.A.. Jagiellonian University
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Law
IN RESIDENCE: Fall 1992
MAJOR INTERESTS: Commercial law in the United States.

Wasilewski, Jacek, Professor, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

Ph.D. University of Warsaw, 1977Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1990
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Sociology
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1993
MAJOR INTERESTS: The sociology of politics and the sociology of social structures. The social recruitment of political elites: the channels, criteria and paths of entering political elites, the system of values and int ernal structure of political elites.

Zaionc, Marek, Associate Professor and Head, Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow @

Ph. D. University of Warsaw, 1985Dr. hab. Jagiellonian University, 1993
LOCAL AFFILIATION: Visiting Professor of Computer Science
IN RESIDENCE: Spring 1995
MAJOR INTERESTS: Computability theory, typed lambda calculus, lambda definability, automated theorem proving, logic programming, logics of programs, functional programming.